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    Question Newbie question

    While I am not a newbie I have a newbie question. I keep getting emails from someone apparently that is using my email address and is sending out Viagra emails. So I am assuming my email (info at wcig.ca) is being used to send out spam email or at least it is being made to look that way.

    What can I do to stop this?
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    Not much as far as I know. There are ways to make it look like you are sending mail from support@google.com or anything if you want to. Thats how phishing scams get people.
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    I $@$#$% hate this kind of crap...someone passing themselves off as my company using my emails to spam people with Viagra emails.
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    Yea there isn't much you can do. They do it to my emails too.
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    Have you pissed someone off lately?

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    Quote Originally Posted by theinvestor View Post
    Have you pissed someone off lately?
    LOL...not today at least
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    Quote Originally Posted by Namefox View Post
    While I am not a newbie I have a newbie question. I keep getting emails from someone apparently that is using my email address and is sending out Viagra emails. So I am assuming my email (info at wcig.ca) is being used to send out spam email or at least it is being made to look that way.

    What can I do to stop this?
    If you don't do it already, at the very minimum you should publish an SPF record for your domain, as well as set up DomainKeys/DKIM. Then if the spammer sends to an email provider that uses these methods for filtering incoming email, they'll see that their IP isn't allowed to send mail for your domain and their emails will be treated with more scrutiny.

    It won't prevent this from happening, but it could definitely help.

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